Identifier: someenglishgarde00jeky (find matches)
Title: Some English gardens;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 Elgood, George Samuel, 1851-
Subjects: Gardens Landscape gardening
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co.
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e hostess, Let us go to the gooseberry garden, would be gladlywelcomed, and guests would also find themselves, at various times of day,sauntering towards the gooseberry plot. How grandly the scarlet Tropsolum (T. speciosum) grows in thesenorthern gardens is well known ; indeed, in many places it has becomealmost a pest. It is much more difficult to grow in the South, where itis often a failure ; in any case, it insists on a northern or eastern exposure.Where it does best in gardens in the English counties is in deep, coolsoil, thoroughly enriched. When well established, the running rootsramble in all directions, fresh growths appearing many feet away fromthe place where it was originally planted. It looks perhaps best whenrunning up the face of a yew hedge, when the bright scarlet bloom, andleaves of clear-cut shape, are seen to great advantage, and many of thefree growths of the plant take the form of hanging garlands. 46 CKATHES: PHLOX from the picture in ihk possession okMrs. Crokt
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KELLIE CASTLE Kellie Castle in Fifeshire, very near Balcaskie, is another house of thefinest type of old Scottish architecture. The basement is vaulted insolid masonry, the ground-Hoor rooms have a height of fourteen feet ;the old hall, now the drawing-room, is nearly fifty feet long. A row ofhandsome stone dormers to an upper floor, light a set of bedrooms,which, as well as the main rooms below, have coved plaster ceilingsof great beauty. There is no certain record of the date of the oldest part of the castle.It is assigned to the fourteenth century, but may be older. The earliestactual date found upon the building is 1573, and it is considered thatthe mass of the castle, as we see it now, was completed by that date,though another portion bears the date 1606. It belonged of old to theOliphants, a family that held it for two and a half centuries, whenit passed by sale to an Erskine, who, early in the seventeenth century,became Earl of Kellie. In 1797, after the death of the seventh Ea

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